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Wikipedia is not a place where anything that exists is automatically ''entitled'' to an article. The onus is not on me to prove that it's ''insignificant''; it's ''your'' job to provide reliable media sources ↗ (newspaper or magazine articles, books, etc., which are published by independent sources) ''about'' the series, which demonstrate that it ''is'' sufficiently notable for inclusion. Bearcat (talk) 05:03, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

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Hi, <br/>
Again in Israel lobby in the United States ↗ I reverted your edit. If you edit in good faith, please keep talks and edits in line. With yourself, and with other editors contributions. If you are "still new to Wikipedia", as you state yourself, please read WP:RS ↗, WP:OR ↗ and such. This is an invitation to join the community. <br/>
On the other hand, if you can pull of an WP:AFD ↗ after 40 edits, I think you are not that new as you suggest. In that case, please read this as a warning ↗ that delusive behavior is not accepted.
<br>Anyway, we have policies, and I ask you to read and apply them. -DePiep (talk) 21:36, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
:Very well, I guess it stays then. This account is old, but rarely used, that's probably why I was able to pull off an AFD, which I discovered last week when an article I wrote got very quickly deleted because it was an Internet thingy with the only references to it were from the Internet, something that seems to describe Megaphone, especially since the Jpost link was broken. <br>For future reference, how exactly would you go about finding source material that something is "not notable"? The OR that you refer to seems to be my comments that searches on Google turn up nothing relevant. I'm not sure how else you would go about showing that. Also, what exactly do you mean "I turned 180 on the topic"?</br>Yserbius (talk) 06:01, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Programming AfDs



Since you placed the AfD notices on the pages for Chef (programming language) ↗ and Piet (programming language) ↗ but did not complete the AfD process, I have removed the notices for now. If you complete the nominations, feel free to undo my removals. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:05, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Sikrikim ↗


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Merge proposals



Just to let you know (in case you aren't watching the talk pages) that I have opposed your proposal to merge various articles into Esoteric programming language ↗ - see Talk:LOLCODE#Merge proposal ↗. BTW, when you kick off a merge proposal you are supposed to create a section on the relevant talk page explaining your rationale for the proposal. Otherwise the ''discuss'' link points nowhere. Gandalf61 (talk) 14:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Merge proposal of Piet (programming language) ↗



Hi Yserbius, I noticed you tagged Piet (programming language) ↗ for merging a little while back, but you didn't include an argument for the merge on the talk page (Talk:Piet (programming language)#Merge proposal ↗ is the default target). If you're still interested in seeing that happen, I'd suggest you do that, or remove the tag if you no longer feel the merge would be an appropriate step. Otherwise, we at WikiProject Merge ↗ just wait until it's a year old and perform it or remove it as we see fit, which really isn't the best outcome for anyone. Thanks, BDD (talk) 23:23, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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Note on sourcing for novel articles



Hi Yserbius, just a quick heads-up about sourcing when working on book/novel articles. Goodreads is user-generated, so it isn't considered a reliable source and shouldn't be used in citations - see WP:GOODREADS ↗. However, it seems like you've just been using it to back up basic plot details. You don't actually need to use a third-party source at all to source the plot summary/contents of a book - see MOS:PLOTCITE ↗. Any sort of critical interpretation needs a reliable source, but you can quickly state the premise or summary in the lead or a plot section with no issues. Thanks, ScalarFactor (talk) 01:33, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

:Thanks, I've been an editor for long enough I generally know how it works. But I haven't added a new page about a book since 2009, so I'm a little rusty. I copied the basics from a different novel and noticed references to Goodreads so I added it too. Yserbius (talk) Yserbius (talk) 02:43, 3 May 2026 (UTC)